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Red Hat Eyeing ‘Open Hybrid Cloud’ with New JBoss PaaS Lineup
Red Hat is moving beyond the realm of containerized PaaS with new OpenShift services for plugging cloud-based applications into back-office systems. Based on the company’s JBoss application server, the upcoming “xPaaS” solutions aim to make it easier for OpenShift users to integrate cloud apps into their IT environments. Red Hat’s xPaas lineup includes a business ...
Analytics Startup C9 Refreshes Portfolio After $12M Funding Round
Revenue analytics specialist C9 has raised $12 million in Series D funding from Mayfield Fund, InterWest Partners and Leapfrog Ventures to accelerate the development of its software and fuel sales and marketing efforts. The round brings the six-year-old startup’s total funding to $40 million. The San Mateo, California-based C9 offers a cloud-based Big Data platform ...
QLogic Shows Off Adapters at Oracle OpenWorld 2013 | #oow13
Despite losing Google to MariaDB, Oracle still maintains a firm grip on the database market. The company’s OpenWorld conference in San Francisco attracted tens of thousands of customers and hundreds of partners, including Fibre Channel vendor QLogic. The networking equipment supplier is attending the event to showcase FabricCache, a line of adapters that leverage its ...
Hadapt Furthers SQL-NoSQL-Hadoop Integration
Breaking down data silos is a challenge enterprises have been trying to overcome for years. Hadapt, a Cambridge, Mass.-based start-up that grew out of work by co-founder Dr. Daniel Abadi at Yale, has made it its core mission to finish the job. The company’s core platform makes it possible to run both Hadoop and SQL ...
Wikibon Study: Enterprises Struggling to Make the Most Out of Their Data
Many enterprises follow their IT organizations into the Big Data revolution without fully understanding the risks and benefits of the technology, a new study from Wikibon found. Co-authors Jeff Kelly and Bert Latamore reached out to vendors and surveyed nearly 100 Big Data practitioners for a fresh perspective on analytics beyond the Fortune 500. According ...
Nimble Accelerates Oracle Workloads with Latest Reference Architecture | #oow13
Nimble Storage is kicking off this week’s Oracle OpenWorld 2013 conference with a new SmartStack reference architecture for relational database environments. Certified to run Oracle’s Linux distribution, virtualization framework and database software, the solution offers “adaptive performance with high availability, capacity savings, efficient data protection, and improved staff productivity.” According to Nimble, the converged architecture ...
NetApp Deepens Oracle Integration As Part of Cloud Push
NetApp is doubling down on the ecosystem in a move to establish its Data ONTAP operating system as the foundation for a ‘universal data platform’ that spans the private, public and hybrid clouds. The storage vendor has recently taken another step toward this goal with the release of new integrations with Oracle software. Building an ...
Internet of Things Review: From Games to Robot Love
Valve Corporation, the privately-held game distribution giant, is expanding the Internet of Things with a new console for its flagship Steam platform. Rumored to be dubbed Steam Box, the platform aims to disrupt living room entertainment by bringing Linux into mainstream gaming. Gabe Newell, the co-founder and managing director of Valve, revealed during a keynote ...
Weekly Security Review: DDoS, Zero-Day Attacks on the Rise
Distributed denial of service attacks pose a serious threat to online gaming communities, according to the latest white paper from DDoS mitigation specialist Prolexic. The company found that the average duration of attacks increased to 32.2 hours in 2013, up 67 percent from the 19.2 hours in the fourth quarter of 2012. The report lists ...
Virident Unveils Tier-Based Partner Program
Less than two weeks after agreeing to merge with Western Digital for $685 million, SSD maker Virident Systems is expanding its channel presence with a new worldwide partner program. The Virident Impact Program (VIP) features two tiers, Member and Elite, to enable partners of various sizes to incorporate FlashMAX II cards and FlashMAX Connect software ...